We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g…

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in…

— Jose Saramago

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't…

— Ramsey Clark

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

— Marvin Gaye

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into…

— Mark Twain

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy…

— H. L. Mencken

“Because it is a curious challenge for western man to distinguish between aristocracy and plutocracy, it will be his unhappy fate to struggle under…

— Tom Fahy

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

— H. L. Mencken

We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate…

— Leon V. DePoncins

I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

— Theodore Roosevelt

If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed…

— Robert Reich

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party,…

— Joseph Pulitzer